Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 14-1

Landscapes -- Vegetation Patterns Patterns of vine forests with medium grassy savanna woodlands Lockerbie near Bamaga, Queensland May 1962 Larger image (122K)

Natural edaphic patterns of vegetation linked to geomorphology of landscape with fire and cattle grazing. Vine forests are on red soils on laterised sandstones, woodlands are maintained by wildfires on laterites and sandy soils from granite and wind blown sands.
Reference:
Stanton, J.P. and Fell, D.G. (1995) The Rainforests of Cape York Peninsula. Qld. Dept. of Environment Report (7057).
Semidecidous mesophyll vine forest on lateritic red earths.

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